CVE-2006-5170 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2006-5170

pam_ldap in nss_ldap on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora...

Vulnerability Description

pam_ldap in nss_ldap on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora Core 3 and earlier, and possibly other distributions does not return an error condition when an LDAP directory server responds with a PasswordPolicyResponse control response, which causes the pam_authenticate function to return a success code even if authentication has failed, as originally reported for xscreensaver.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

fedoraproject

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Affected Software

fedora core, enterprise linux, enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux for ibm z systems, enterprise linux for power big endian, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux workstation, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 4.0, 4.0_s390, 4.0_s390x, 3.1

Timeline

Official Publish: October 4th, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.